I Am Not A Lawyer, but I strongly suspect you're misreading Apache's
license. There really shouldn't be a problem with your making the DLL
available from your own website, as long as you do so under their
license (which should be easy; just make it a separate download from
your own code).

The standard Xerces binary distribution is available direct from Apache
and their shadows, though I can't vouch for whether that's as a DLL or
in some other form. See http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/download.cgi

look here: http://www.dlldump.com/

"Matt" wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> Summary:
>
> Where can one download a Xerces-C (XML pardser) dynamic library file
> (.DLL file) for Windows (Win98/WinNT/Win2k/WinXP/Win2003, including
> server flavors; don't need to support pre-98) without having to build
> the library from source?
>
> We posed this question to the Xerces-users email list, but have yet to
> hear back from anyone there.
>
>
> Details:
>
> I am helping produce a GPL (GNU's General Public License) -based
> open-source project that depends on the Xerces-C XML parser module as
> a dynamic/shared library. Unfortunately, Xerces-C's license (an
> Apache license) makes it illegal for my project to provide the
> Xerces-C software or binaries (including the library .dll binary)
> available via our software distributions or websites in general.
>
> Therefore, for our Windows distributions (either source or binary),
> the user is forced to find Xerces-C on their own. This same issue
> occurs for other systems, but it's not as big of an issue on these
> other systems (namely Linux ones) because they tend to have an
> automated means to acquire libraries and source headers (eg, apt-get
> on Debian, yum/up2date on Redhat systems, etc).
>
> The general procedure for our Windows users will be to download our
> software (either in source or binary flavor), and then acquire
> Xerces-C separately. Not as a big problem for those building from
> source, but for those who don't want to build Xerces-C from source, it
> sure would be nice if these users had a place to acquire a Xerces-C
> pre-built binary (paritcularly for Xerces 2.7.0).
>
> Fyi, we have the same issue with the OpenSSL libraries, but there
> seems to be a well-reference site to get these OpenSSL binaries:
>
> http://www.openssl.org/related/binaries.html
> http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html
>
> I'm looking for a similar thing (or better yet, multiple places) to
> get Xerces-C Windows library binaries (again, preferrably for 2.7.0,
> but 2.6.0 may suffice).
>
> Thanks for any help,
> -Matt
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:11:03 -0400, Joseph Kesselman
wrote:

>I Am Not A Lawyer, but I strongly suspect you're misreading Apache's
>license.

Well, we are told the GPL is not compatible with Apache, or so says
our legal representation as well as:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html

However...

> There really shouldn't be a problem with your making the DLL
>available from your own website, as long as you do so under their
>license (which should be easy; just make it a separate download from
>your own code).

....maybe this doesn't preclude us from distributing the Xerces DLL
with a different license? Hmmmm....I'll have to check that out.
Thanks for the heads up.

>
>The standard Xerces binary distribution is available direct from Apache
>and their shadows, though I can't vouch for whether that's as a DLL or
>in some other form. See http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/download.cgi

Somehow we overlooked this stuff, too. I do see a MSVC collection
there, now sure how well this is going to link with my mingw stuff.

I'll check out the distribution-under-Apache license first. Thanks
again.

-Matt
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